Exclusive: Piction Health raises $6M to cut wait times for skin conditions

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Pic­tion Health, which start­ed as a mo­bile app that us­es AI to rec­og­nize skin con­di­tions from pic­tures, just raised $6 mil­lion in seed fund­ing to build out its vir­tu­al der­ma­tol­ogy clin­ic.

The idea is to make der­ma­tol­ogy care more ac­ces­si­ble and cut down on wait times, which can av­er­age over a month for a new ap­point­ment, ac­cord­ing to the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Fam­i­ly Physi­cians. A der­ma­tol­o­gist as­signs a di­ag­no­sis and treat­ment plan to pa­tients with­in 48 hours af­ter they up­load pic­tures of their skin con­di­tion on­to Pic­tion’s plat­form. Pa­tients can al­so chat with nurs­es and get pre­scrip­tions for their con­di­tions. The plat­form charges $119 per vis­it for new pa­tients and takes in­sur­ance such as Aet­na, Cigna, Unit­ed­Health­care and An­them.

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